The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust

Analysis

The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northampton. It was registered in September 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03148360). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust reported income of £476k and spending of £689k, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £406k to £476k (+17%), an average of +4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 125%. Over the whole period it spent 125% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Get a Head Charitable Trust (£476k), The Jain Network (£476k) and Oxford Head Injury Services (£475k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.